Re: ORMCustomTool not available for DDL generation

Did you install the tool with administrative permissions? NORMA can be partially installed in VS2010 without these permissions, but you won't get extensions, generators, and a few other things working correctly. Make sure you use 'SetupVista.bat' for Vista and Win7.

Are you in a VB or C# project (if the add file diagram from the project node in the solution explorer offers an .ORM file then you should be fine).

Is your selection in Solution Explorer window (not on the diagram)?

Is the CustomTool property visible?

Is it set to ORMCustomTool?

If you set this to ORMCustomTool and don't see the GeneratorSettings property, change the selection and reselect your file node and see if it appears.

If all of this is set and you don't have it, could you give me an OS (including bitness) and version number that you're running and I can give you some keys to look for to verify the installation.

Re: ORMCustomTool not available for DDL generation

Maybe we can take this offline and I can figure out what is up with your installation. The ORMCustomTool is a completely separate component to the designer, so you can have the designer working fine and the generator broken. Registering custom tools and property providers (for the ORMGeneratorSettings property) is a little touchy in VS.